People in Bristol have been helping to plant tens of thousands of trees by ditching Google and Yahoo and switching to a greener search engine.
Ecosia - www.ecosia.org - the world’s largest not-for-profit search engine, uses 80 per cent of its advertising profits to plant trees around the world. More than 6,000 people in Bristol access the Internet each day using the tree planting website, and through this, they are planting an average of 175,000 trees a year across the UK. This figure roughly equates to the size of Clifton Downs when put into a Bristol context.
The search engine uses the profits from these searches to reforest locations such as Madagascar to protect lemur habitats, Burkina Faso to restore desertified land and create employment and Australia to improve resilience to forest fires.
